Details Of Families With Milch Animals

Summary: The tool kit is related to details of families with milch animal. The tool kit covers
following section about general information, economic aspects, livestock aspects,
feeding practices, health issues and future path.
Tag: Milch animals; Cow; Buffalo; Conceived; Barren; Cross breed; Local; Feeding;
Health; Veterinary; Dairy centre
General Information
1. Name:
2. Sex:
3. Name of Village/Habitation:
4. Name of Gram Panchayat:
5. Age of family head:
a. 15-25
b. 25-40
c. 40-55
d. >55
6. Category of respondent:
a. General
b. SC
c. ST
d. BC
e. OBC
7. Marital Status of respondent:
a. Married b. Unmarried
c. Widow d. Widower
8. Family members:
a. Children (<14yrs)
b. Adult
9. Are you an existing Share Microfinance Customer? Y/N
Economic Aspects
10. Earning Members:
11. Annual Income:
12. Livelihood of the family:
a. Farmer
b. Govt. Employee
c. Private Job
d. Businessman
e. Wage Laborer
f. Others
.. (Please specify)
13. Land Details (In Acres):
a. Irrigated. b. Rain fed ...
14. Irrigated Land Particulars (In Acres):
a. Canal.........
b. Bore
c. Lift .
d. Others ... (Specify)
15. Fodder grass land (In Acres):


Livestock Aspects
16. Non Milking Animal Details
# Livestock No. of Buffaloes No of Cows
Category Local Cross Breed Local Cross Breed
1 Calves (< 1 yr)
2 Not Conceived (> 1 yr)
3 Conceived
4 Barren
5 He buffaloes/Bull

17. No. of Milking animals and morning (M) and evening Yield (Ltrs/day)
Buffaloes Cows Total
Local Crossbreed Local Cross
Breed
Local Crossbreed
No Milk
Yield
No Milk
Yield
No Milk
Yield
No Milk
Yield
No Milk
Yield
No Milk
Yield
M E M E M E M E M E M E


18. Home Consumption (Ltrs)
# Home Consumption (Ltrs) Buffalo Milk Cow Milk
1 Morning
2 Evening
3 Total

19. Sales (Ltrs)
Buffalo Cow Reasons for
selling
Morning Evening Rate Morning Evening Rate
Dairy
Agent
Neighbor
Town
Others
Total
Code for Reasons for selling: Higher Price (1), Timely Payment (2), Doorstep collection (3),
Correct Measurement (4), Time of collection (5), Others (6)
a. If dairy, specify name of dairy
b. Payment Mode &Terms and Conditions
Mode of Payment Frequency of payment
Cash (1)/ Credit (2) Daily (1)/ Weekly (2)/
Fortnightly (3)/ Monthly (4)
Dairy
Agent
Neighbor
Town
Others
Total

20. Criteria for selection of vendor/agent/ dairy for sale of milk (Rank on 1 to 5 point
scale in order of importance)
# Parameters Rank
A Higher price per litre
B Collection at door
C Time of collection
D Frequency of payment
E Correct measurement
F Others (Specify)




21. Do you sell milk in any form apart from milk? Y/N
Product Y/N Price Quantity (per day) Point of sale
Chena
Khoya
Ghee
Paneer
Others
Curd

22. What services you get from the vendor/agent?


23. Have you taken any loans to buy milch animals? Y/N
a. If Yes,
i. Source .
ii. Amount ..
iii. Repayment Period .
24. What is the purchase price for buying of animals?
# Parameters Y/N
A AI
B Health Care
C Insurance
D Subsidized Cattle Feed
E Subsidized fodder
F Training
G Nutrient Supplement
Others (Specify) ..
# Livestock Buffaloes Cows
Particulars Local Cross Breed Local Cross Breed
1 Price (Rs.)
2 Point of purchase


25. What problem(s) are you facing?
# Parameters Y/N
A Not getting right price
B Payment not on time
C Wrong measurement
D Poor or no support service
E Corruption in system
F Lack of credit availability
G High cost of service
H Low price on flush season
I Others (Specify)
..


Feeding practices:
26. Which is the source of feed for you animals:
a. Own production
b. Local shops
c. Others
27. Feed requirement per day:
28. Fodder requirement per day:
29. How much money you are spending per month for feeding each animal?
..
30. What are the major components of feed?

31. Do you get adequate land available for grazing of animals? Y/N
a. Time of grazing .
32. Have you insured your animals: (Y/N)
a. How many
i. Buffaloes .. ii. Cows ..
b. Provider
Health practices:
33. In case of illness where will you refer for medications?
a. Self Remedy
b. Local Veterinarian
c. Mandal level hospital
d. Others (Specify)
34. Vaccinations done this year FMD / HS / BQ
a. Source .
35. Major animal disease incidences prevailing in the area?
.
36. Are there any animal deaths or any other major loss caused because of
treatment delay? Y/N
37. Availability of veterinary doctors
a. Daily b. Weekly c. Monthly
38. Accessibility to health care centre: Y/N
39. Accessibility to AI services: Y/N
40. How far is the veterinary dispensary from your place?
a. Below 1 K M
b. 1 5 K M
c. 5 10 K M
d. 10 20 K M
e. Above 20 K M
Future Prospects
41. Requirement for Dairy Centre: (Y/N)
a. If Share Customer, if share willing to open a dairy are you willing to pour
milk? Y/N
42. Will you pour milk to Dairy: (Y/N)
a. If no, Specify the reasons
b. If yes, How many Liters
Buffalo Cow Total
Morning
Evening
43. Services required from Dairy: (Y/N)
a. Feed
b. AI
c. Health Care
d. Insurance
e. Others (Specify)
Signature of respondent

Signature of Investigator

Signature of Supervisor

Signature of Data Entry
Person